ecstasy (n.) Old form(s): extasie
emotion, state of mind, feeling
LC.69[of the woman] If ... there may be aught applied / Which may her suffering ecstasy assuage
Mac IV.iii.170[Ross to Macduff and Malcolm, of Scotland] It cannot / Be called our mother, but our grave ... where violent sorrow seems / A modern ecstasy
Ven.895[of Venus] Thus stands she in a trembling ecstasy
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